Cisco Live Amsterdam concluded with vital bulletins from Cisco, specializing in AI, Application Modernization, and Security. Whether you joined us in individual or nearly, I hope you discovered the occasion insightful. As a part of the Cisco Live program, I had the pleasure of unveiling new built-in options developed in collaboration with Red Hat, leveraging their OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform.
The partnership between Cisco and Red Hat has been longstanding. Last 12 months we introduced our corporations are serving to prospects adapt to infrastructure modernization necessities by constructing built-in options that embody Cisco UCS, Cisco Intersight, Cisco knowledge heart networking, and Red Hat OpenShift. These options unite best-in-class applied sciences from Cisco and our companions.
We are enhancing the success of Cisco’s built-in options with Red Hat OpenShift by introducing a world-class infrastructure automation and administration platform. The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now out there from Cisco, working on main applied sciences like Cisco UCS and Cisco Intersight. Our purpose is to offer a strong, scalable, and automatic basis for purchasers who search AI instruments and options to modernize their software infrastructure and knowledge heart networking, all whereas guaranteeing a easy and seamless procurement course of.
Cisco’s compute and AI merchandise have at all times benefited from deep integrations with the Ansible Automation Platform by Certified Content Collections. This prolonged partnership expands on present choices by introducing new Ansible Validated Content collections aligned with Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs). These enhancements allow the complete automation of Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 operations utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, delivering an easy and safe expertise for purchasers.
New CVDs create an structure for automation throughout the Cisco portfolio
(be aware: If you aren’t conversant in Ansible or the Ansible Automation Platform, you may be taught extra from Cisco associate – Red Hat.)
Here is a abstract of the brand new CVDs and Ansible automation content material we introduced and showcased final week throughout Cisco Live Amsterdam because of this prolonged partnership:
New CVDs for FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform
The FlexPod with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and FlexPod with OpenShift Virtualization Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) present a strong basis for deploying OpenShift on FlexPod bare-metal infrastructure.
While preliminary deployment is important, Day 2 operations—together with system upkeep, scaling, safety enforcement, and efficiency optimization—are important for guaranteeing long-term effectivity and stability, for instance:
- Ensure steady compliance with automated UCS configuration enforcement
- Improve safety posture by automated patching and vulnerability remediation
- Scale sources dynamically with automated UCS server provisioning
- Enhance system reliability with proactive monitoring and self-healing infrastructure
By leveraging automation and Ansible Automation Platform, organizations can simplify Day 2 operations throughout OpenShift Virtualization, NetApp storage, and Cisco UCS infrastructure, lowering handbook efforts whereas enhancing consistency, safety, and scalability.
Value of extending Ansible Automation Platform help on Cisco UCS naked steel
Cisco prospects can now streamline operations by eliminating the hypervisor layer to run cloud-native workloads. This reduces total infrastructure prices whereas enhancing useful resource utilization.
With OpenShift Virtualization, legacy purposes can function in digital machines (VMs) that may be created, managed, cloned, and live-migrated alongside containerized workloads on bare-metal Cisco UCS. This bare-metal structure offers direct {hardware} entry, optimizing efficiency for high-demand workloads like high-performance computing, AI, and different latency-sensitive purposes.
Ansible Validated Content for Day-2 Operations
Ansible validated content material consists of Ansible roles that supply professional steering on performing particular operations and duties, enabling quick automation.
Red Hat and Cisco are providing an preliminary set of Ansible Validated content material, supporting the CVD for FlexPod Datacenter with OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform, concentrating on the next buyer use instances:
- Verifying energetic and inactive ports
- Modifying the profile of a brand new chassis
- Deploying a brand new server to a chassis with the proper profile settings
- Upgrading server and cloth interconnect firmware
- Adding or altering IP addresses and VLANs on new or current servers
Looking Forward to What is Next
The new CVD introduced at Cisco Live Amsterdam builds upon the success of Cisco built-in virtualization options with Cisco companions Red Hat and Netapp. With the addition of validated automation content material and an automation administration platform to run this automation, we imagine this “next-level” CVD will assist prospects simplify operations and cut back danger.
The use instances focused by these bulletins are simply the place to begin. Between now and Cisco Live San Diego, search for further Ansible Validated Content concentrating on new use instances in help of Cisco and Red Hat prolonged partnership:
Configuration Management & Drift Detection
Patching & Security Updates
Resource Scaling & Performance Optimization
Monitoring & Alerting Automation
Backup & Disaster Recovery (DR) Automation
Policy Compliance & Governance
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